Instant Regret

(in'-stint rē-gret') n.

a subreddit dedicated to deliberate actions that unexpectedly lead to undesirable consequences and horrible results; things which may cause someone to say, "oh man, did I just screw the pooch!"

Guidelines & Rules

Videos and gifs must show regret. Sometimes the display of regret is unmistakable. It can be evident in someone's face, or in their body language. Sometimes it's a judgment call. If you think it works, try it out. If we delete it, you were wrong. We are Reddit™ moderators. We are always right!

A fail is not a regret. Some ripper eating a swellbow while trying to bone a rail on the backside, (that's skater lingo for a bad crash. I looked it up (made it up)), isn't regret. There should be a look of surprise, and an expression that clearly says, "Oh no. Oh, God no. I really should not have done that. Why did I do that?"

Eating bad food and not liking it is not regret. You knew what was going to happen, dumbass.

Laughter is not an expression of regret. It's just not.

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If the video is longer than 20 seconds, please use a tag to tell everyone when the lead-up to the regrettable moment begins. For example [regret at 4:20]. Or post the video queued up to the point where things get good and the regret quickly follows. But, ultimately, these are just excellent suggestions. You're the director. Make it good. And don't worry. If it sucks, we'll get rid of it for you.

No compilations. Just pick one good thing and go with it. Everybody likes it when you do that.

We love animals. They are capable of regret, but we don't want to see videos where their regret is the fault of humans, involves cruelty, injury or is in any way unpleasant.

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i feel like people don't mention all the shit artest went through before actually hitting someone.

wallace gave artest the hard shove after the play ended. and then while artest was trying to calm down, wallace threw a towel at artest. and then while he was trying to calm down from that, he had the beer thrown at him. so then he grabs the fan he thought threw the beer, but doesn't even hit him. then artest gets punched in the back of the head, and while artest is leaving he gets confronted by two guys on the court and hits one of them.

i know i'm on the wrong side of things here, but i can't help but sympathize with artest. everyone has a breaking point.

seems like stephen jackson and ben wallace escalated the situation a lot more than artest did. and stephen jackson actually threw punches at the fan in the stand. artest just hit the fan who confronted him on the court. so then artest gets banned for the year, but stephen jackson gets banned for 30 games.

Right, and the fact that the Pistons fans literally made a disgusting g show of sportsmanship. That was sickening to watch, multiple upon multiple fans just dumping their beers onto players walking back down the tunnel. What a sorry bunch of people.

He gave one of them a solid right hook to the face. Honestly the fans were the worst in all of this. If there hadn't been 100's of them there I guarantee nobody throws a punch at a man that could probably kill you. These guys are pro athletes, all they do is work out.

I was thinking this as well, but then it occurred to me that most people don't go to games alone. If you see someone charging at or beating on your friend or loved one it's not unusual to get involved regardless of the size of the people involved. Of course, there's always assholes that are just looking for any excuse to clock someone that were most likely involved as well. Not hard to see how a situation like that could snowball.

He was hacking Ben Wallace and was an all around physical dirty player. You could argue he instigated the situation from the very beginning - including LAYING ON THE ANNOUNCERS TABLE - he wasn't "just trying to calm down" he was relishing in the shit he was causing. That's who is was.

I'm just saying in the years following the event he got help for his mental health issues that changed his mindset for the better and the name change wasn't just some spur of the moment thing to fix his image immediately after the event.

I've always felt like Jermaine O'Neal would have left that Pistons fan at the 6:20 mark permanently injured if the punch had fully connected. He looked like he wanted to know his head off. Both of them should thank their lucky stars, the fan for not getting his bell rung, and O'Neal for not being in jail.

No, that was the Bruins. One of the players (Mike Milbury) beat the fan with his own shoe. That player went on to be a coach and General Manager and is now a color commentator and analyst on NBC. Not many people like him. It is a silly league.

Yes... Tie Domi is a legend. Darcy Tucker somewhat took his spot as inforcer after Domi retired, i still remember meeting the players in Toronto through "Children's Wish Foundation" got a jersey signed by the by all the leafs and asked Darcy Tucker to get in a fight for me at the game that night, he did!

There's an old story Bruce McNall told me about someone sitting next to the Kings bench. And back then there wasn't a proper partition between the seats and the bench and the players pass a water bottle down the line and the last guy passes it to a large gentleman who douses himself with the bottle of water and hands it back. The Kings player grabs the water bottle back and looks to his left and sees a soaking wet John Candy in a suit smiling back at him.

Agreed. If anything, the regret is usually on the pro player for responding. Patrick Beverly from the NBA just got fined $25,000 for responding to a fan cussing him out (and maybe spitting on him): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7fgcwyToQ

+13 - Agreed. If anything, the regret is usually on the pro player for responding. Patrick Beverly from the NBA just got fined $25,000 for responding to a fan cussing him out (and maybe spitting on him):

Maple Leaf fans are so annoying. even at an away game in St Paul against the Wild, a team they play twice a year, the fans all acted like it was some sort of rivalry. Luckily we beat them and they fired Randy Carlyle 2 days later